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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 3 › Chapter 1 › Section 2: Of the Covenant of promise as manifested to Adam.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. What is that Hu] in our Bible translated, it?] it shall bruise thy head? Some observe this Hu, it] is of the masculine gender; and Zera, Seed, is of the masculine gender; & Jesaphera, shall bruise, is of the masculine gender, which confutes the Translation, that renders it thus, she shall bruise thy head: and which confirms our Translation which is thus, he, or it, or that same Seed, (i.) one singular person of that same Seed, shall bruise thy head. Well then, who is this he? or what one is he?] even Jesus the Son of the Living God. Here is the first hint of Jesus that ever was read, or heard of in this world. This was the Proto-evangel, or first Gospel that ever was published after the Creation. O blessed news, fit for Gods mouth to speak, and to break first to the world now fallen! O dear parents! how would you have despaired, if before sentence you had not heard this blessed tidings! O our first Parents upon Earth! where had you and we been, if ⟨p. 61⟩this blessed Text had not been? Come, set a Star upon it, write it in letters of Gold, or rather write it on the very Tables of our Hearts: here is the blessedst news that ever was, or ever shall be; but for this we had been all Fire-brands of Hell; yea, but for this, Adam and Eve, and all their Sons and Daughters that are now gone out of this World, had been smoking and frying in Hell-fire. Away with all gross mistakes, Erroneous conceits, and as you love your Souls, yield to this blessed sense! This it] or he] is one of that same Seed, and this one of that same seed is Jesus, and only Jesus, and none but Jesus; and for this sense we have these arguments.
5. What is that Hu] in our Bible translated, it?] it shall bruise thy head? Some observe this Hu, it] is of the masculine gender; and Zera, Seed, is of the masculine gender; & Jesaphera, shall bruise, is of the masculine gender, which confutes the Translation, that renders it thus, she shal bruise thy head: and which confirms our Translation which is thus, he, or it, or that same Seed, (i.) one singular person of that same Seed, shall bruise thy head. Well then, who is this he? or what one is he?] even Jesus the Son of the Living God. Here is the first hint of Jesus that ever was read, or heard of in this world. This was the Proto-evangel, or first Gospel that ever was published after the Creation. O blessed news, fit for Gods mouth to speak, and to break first to the world now fallen! O dear parents! how would you have dispaired, if before sentence you had not heard this blessed tydings! O our first Parents upon Earth! where had you and we been, if